2007 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops
Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

OVERALL North American Dollar Sales for
Diamond's Comics, Graphic Novels, and Magazines for the year

around $429.9 Million

(up 9% year-over-year)

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2008 managed to stay slightly positive overall year-over-year, despite slippage in the narrower categories.
    
Civil War's ending give comics a February almost as strong as its January. Captain America #25, featuring the character's death, helped Marvel account than half of the units and dollars represented by Diamond's Top 300 Comic Books for the first time in years in March.

In April, the Civil War trade paperback releases boosted Diamond's Top 100 trades above $5 million for just the second time; in May, trade paperbacks topped $6 million for the first time. In June, World War Hulk helped push the direct sales market to a 10% year-to-date gain versus the first six months of 2006.

In July, Thor #1 gave Marvel its best month in the unit sales category since 1996. August managed to beat the strong performance of a year before. The midlist pushed deep in September, with the 300th place comic book selling more than 4,000 copies — resulting in the best month then to date in the Diamond Exclusive Era for Overall Sales, Top 300 Comics Dollar Sales, and Top Comics Puls Top Trades. The average cost per comic book in the Top 300 also set a record high. 

New Avengers #35 led the charts in an October that soared over the same month in the previous year, which had one less shipping week. Sales dipped in November but kept the year on a positive pace. In December, Ultimates 3 #1 helped finish off 2007 on a positive note; the year was up 9% overall from 2006 and the seventh straght year of growth for the industry.

The final rankings for all comics and trade paperbacks during the year appear below. Diamond Comic Distributors reported these issues without indexes, so no sales estimates are calculated. You can find the first-month sales for these issues in the monthly charts; click one of the months at the bottom or use the search tool at the top of the page to find the specific issue. But note that those monthly numbers do not include reorders for the entire year; the rankings below do take the entire year's sales into account.

Click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the year.

—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all items on Diamond's end-of-year chart.
If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.
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2007 Graphic Novel Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks Shipped to North American Comics Shops Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top Graphic Novel charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The links lead to title details on Amazon (paid links). You can also find the books at your comics shop.

Graphic novel orders soared 18% for the year in the Top 100, helping to offset softer comics sales and put the market in positive territory for the year. Marvel's Civil War, collecting its hit series from 2006-07, had a lot to do with it.

My analyses of preorders from Diamond Comic Distributors for individual months can be found here: